Famke Janssen Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Producer , Director more
Birth name Famke Beumer Janssen
Dutch nationality
Birth November 5, 1964 (Amsterdam – Netherlands)

BIOGRAPHY
Originally from the Netherlands, Famke Janssen began a career in modeling before settling in the United States in 1984. The young woman studied writing and literature at Columbia University and drama under the tutelage of famous professor Harold Guskin . Famke Janssen then ended her studies and moved to Los Angeles to try her luck as an actress. Her perseverance paid off and she eventually landed her first role in the drama Fathers & Sons in 1992 alongside Jeff Goldblum .

Although fluent in four languages ​​(Dutch, German, French and English), Famke Janssen has difficulty establishing herself on the big screen. She made numerous appearances in television series ( Star Trek: Next Generation , Melrose Place , etc.) before convincing the producers of the James Bond franchise to give her the role of the poisonous Russian spy Xenia Onatopp in Goldeneye in 1995. This The role of castrating woman will also mark her career: the only female representative in the middle of John Dahl ‘s Players in 1998 or a seductive but dangerous alien teacher in The Faculty , she also plays a corrupt wife seeking to assassinate her husband Geoffrey Rush in The House of horror in 1999. The beginning of the 2000s marked a radical change in the choice of his roles. Famke Janssen stands out from her previous characters by starring in the romantic comedy Love & Sex and by playing Doctor Jean Grey, a mutant working for good in X-Men and its sequel X-Men 2 directed by Bryan Singer . Refusing the roles of a man-eating alien in MIIB and Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘s antagonist in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines , the actress prefers to play characters with positive connotations such as Michael Douglas ‘s devoted wife in the thriller Not a Word and that of a sensual double agent in the action comedy Spy and a Half or a brilliant psychiatrist in the supernatural thriller Game Trouble in 2005. The same year, the actress remained in the field of fantasy in reuniting with the X-Men mutant team in the final confrontation directed by Brett Ratner . In 2008,

Wackness alongside Ben Kingsley before appearing in the action film Taken , a surprise hit of the year 2009 with Liam Neeson . Two years later, the actress played one of the main roles in Chameleon , a thriller by French filmmaker Jean-Paul Salomé , in which she starred opposite Ellen Barkin , Marc-André Grondin and Emilie de Ravin . In 2012, she again played Liam Neeson’s ex-wife in Taken 2 , an anticipated sequel to Pierre Morel ‘s hit film . After playing the villainess of Hansel and Gretel and once again taking on the role of Jean Gray in Wolverine: Battle for the Immortal , Famke Janssen turns to the small screen by playing one of the main roles in the new horror series produced by Eli Roth : Hemlock Grove .

Appearing again briefly in the skin of Jean Gray for the needs of X-Men: Days of Future Past released on our screens in 2014, the actress returned the following year to another role which made her famous: that of Lenore in Taken 3 , third part of the lucrative action saga produced by Luc Besson . We then see her in relatively dispensable films like Happy Birthday , Asher , The Poison Rose , Primal , Good Kisses from the Killer and Final Heist . In 2023, the 58-year-old actress joins the cast of Knights of the Zodiac , a live action adaptation of the famous animated series. At the same time, she played Susan Hargrave in the third season of Blacklist , then took up this character in the spin-off of the series, The Blacklist: Redemption . She also stars in a few episodes of Murder and Long Slow Exhale .